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VMworld 2010 – Opening Movie for the Opening Keynote
Do you want to know what the cloud is? Watch this and learn. This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. One of the better opening keynotes in a while. It answers the question of “What is the cloud?” in a way that [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: cloud, VMware, vmworld
VMworld 2010 – Closing General Session – Live Blog
VMworld 2010 is coming to a close. This has been a very different ride than previous VMworlds in my experience. So stay tuned for my wrap up. This is a live blog posting. Richard – Chief Marketing Officer vTicket – The Golden Ticket – You will just have to wait and see what [...]
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VMworld 2010 – General Session – Live Blogging
Hello one and all. Its a Live Blog going down today. Enjoy the live blogging and check out @iankoenig on twitter for even more live information. Update 9:04am: Hanging out with Virtualization-spotlight.com owner chatting about the cloud. Waiting for the session to start. What coolness do we have this year? Update: 9:10am: The opening presentation [...]
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Lab Manager is dead.. Long Live Lab Manager
VMware has announced the new product VMware vCloud Director (vCD from now on). I’ve read the early blog posts and been in some conversations and know at this point I just can’t give it any justice. The short view it is virtualizing a datacenter into software and then managing at that layer. After spending close [...]
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Cloud Application Platform – vFabric at VMworld 2010
Just announced at VMworld 2010 is the “Cloud Application Platform” layer in the new focus for VMware. This layer covers the Spring Source functionality, Hyperic monitoring solution and the new vFabric solution. The focus of this is around the New Applications that you develop or bring into the business. The Spring framework and the Hyperic [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: API, vFabric, vmworld
EA7849 – Exchange Server 2010 on vSphere
Hanging out checking out some information on Exchange and decided to hit this session. My company is looking at upgrading and since we are going to Exchange 2010, I’d like to get us virtual on vSphere if we can make it happen. Alex Fontana, our presenter, is a Microsoft Technical Specialist for VMware. The trend [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: exchange, vmworld, vSphere
VMworld 2010 – The Future Here & Now
The year, the past. The place, a convention in a week. I’m prepped. I’m ready. I’m excited. I’m nervous. I’ve got a presentation I’m going to do. There’s going to be tons of announcements and product releases. I’m working myself into a frenzy about everything that’s going to happen and things I need to be [...]
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Upgrading to ESX 4 Classic sets NIC speed to static setting
Recently I found that my environment of ESX 4 Classic has a lot of static NIC speed settings. This is a rather interesting discovery as I’ve been a strong proponent of using Auto Negotiation on all the NICs as that will help one find flaky or poorly connected cables along with a variety of other [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: vSphere4.1
Upgrading Firmware on ESXi
A bane of any system administrator’s existence is the constant stream of firmware updates to fix various bugs and issues that occur. One of these HBA Firmware updates is a fairly common issue where a new LUN or Target is not being discovered without a reboot. With Emulex there is a set of tools called [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: emulex, ESX, esxi, firmware
VMworld Public Voting
In an attempt to get better sessions picked out at VMworld, the part of the selection process is now done via public voting. http://vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/ This has been an interesting process watching Twitter and a variety of blogs discuss various sessions and which ones are good and which ones folks want to go see. As one [...]
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